Frankie Muniz says he can nonetheless depend on his fake household … ‘trigger his tv father Bryan Cranston checks on him infrequently.

The actor turned racecar driver stopped by the “Inside You with Michael Rosenbaum” podcast the place he revealed his TV dad nonetheless reaches out to him … sending him texts fairly usually.

Muniz says Cranston actually was a father determine to the star since they began working collectively when he was so younger … and, regardless that Bryan’s now a “Hollywood god,” Frankie’s nonetheless excessive up his cellphone contacts.

FM says, “He nonetheless reaches out to me each couple of weeks, examine in on me. He actually cares about what I’m doing, involves the races, if my band was enjoying, got here to reveals.”

Frankie provides he feels Bryan’s an inspiration to him … and, he hopes to be the identical for another person at some point.

Muniz performed Malcolm and Bryan performed his dad Hal on seven season of “Malcolm within the Center” … being two of the 4 actors who appeared in all 151 episodes.

Frankie has since left performing behind … to pursue different pursuits he talked about within the interview — specifically music and racing.

Bryan, in the meantime, surprised audiences for 5 season on the hit drama “Breaking Unhealthy” and in a number of Oscar-nominated movies since ‘MITM’ ended.